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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another Medium post - this one on a dramatic change in my work environment which radically changed the way I think about work and managing my time - and the self-managed model that followed. It does link quite closely to the two recent planner-related issues. medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Time is an illusion – lunchtime doubly so – Part 3 of 3
Fourteen years logging every minute of my working day. Fourteen years logging almost none. The same broken clock throughout.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last week I posted on Medium (and Substack, if that's your preferred platform) about the planners I'd tried that had failed to work for me. It seemed to resonate with people. Here's the follow-up - about the one I have (mostly) got to work - and how I had to adapt it. medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Why I keep coming back to Franklin
How I've adapted the Franklin Planner for an ADHD brain – and what still frustrates me about it.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Staying on top of things with ADHD is an ongoing struggle. Here's me wittering on about 19 planning systems I've broken (and how) and one I'm still trying to break. medium.com/two-track-mi...
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20 Planners I've Broken Trying to Manage My ADHD
Forty years, two acquisition habits and one golden rule I've broken with every single one of them.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you read last week's Medium piece - and I know some of you did - here's part 2. medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Time is an illusion - lunchtime doubly so - Part 2 of 3
Three very different corporate structures, one ADHD brain, and why the ones that looked like they worked often didn’t.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm at it again. It's a little bit late this week which, as you'll see, is ironic... medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My weekly post Two Track Mind post on Medium - a little more personal than the last one but hopefully of interest to fellow ADHDers. medium.com/two-track-mi...
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The Ones That Stuck: Ten Ideas That Changed the Way I Think About ADHD
It took a magazine from 1994 and a CompuServe forum full of other ADDults to start to find the words that finally made sense of my brain.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I do understand the obsession with surveys, I really do. But... medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I see Farage has honked out another one of his ‘racist ideas for idiots’… Don’t solve the problem by building more social housing, make people in the queue angry with each other instead. What a little racist shit-stirrer with his £5mill and 5 homes, whipping up hatred to make himself richer. (Times)
Put working Britons first in housing queue, says Reform
Matt Dathan
British-born workers under 35 would be placed at the front of the queue for social housing, with priority given to married couples with children, in a new pledge from Reform UK
Nigel Farage's party has announced radical plans to overhaul the way such accommodation is allocated,
with
veterans also given preference.
Those on benefits would be regarded as a lower priority under the new policy, to be announced by Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader.
The party has already pledged to bar foreigners from social housing and said they would be evicted after a "short grace period. Reform UK estimates that 540,000 social homes are occupied by foreign citizens and that of the 1.3 million people on waiting lists, 15 per cent - about 195,000 households — are foreign.
Tice said: "There are now 1.3 million people waiting for social housing in Britain. The vast majority of them do not have jobs. In terms of the social houses we have, less than half of households are in work and over half a million social homes are currently occupied by foreign nationals.
"Meanwhile, young British men and women, who are working hard, can't afford to move out of their family home… It is time for us to prioritise young British workers, and that is what our policy is about."
A Labour spokesman described
Reform's plans as unserious and unworkable. "Access to social housing is already tightly controlled. Illegal migrants, asylum seekers and migrants on student or work visas are not eligible for social housing," the spokesman said.
"This policy would go after long-term
UK residents that have contributed to our country but are not British citizens, including NHS staff. It would leave more families at risk of homelessness and drive up use of temporary accommodation at the taxpayers' expense. It would also mean renegotiations with the EU, resulting in years of wrangling"
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I shoot things for fun - and money medium.com/two-track-mi...
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I shoot things for fun - and money
How a bad mountain bike racer accidentally became a professional photographer
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
More tiny experiments medium.com/two-track-mi...
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The Importance of Career Planning
How a Grand Prix, two E-grades and eight weeks in the coldest house in Liverpool started a forty-year habit.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Last week I posted a story on Medium about the consequences of leaving your phone at home while travelling abroad. And I promised a list of things to do to minimise the impact. So, here it is... medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Ten Ways to Survive a Trip Without Your Phone
Last week I left my phone on the sofa and flew to Singapore. Bottom line: it’s almost impossible to function without a phone. From airline…
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm taking the win, because I've been saying for some time that life's little annoyances should be an issue for government. Now tackle the ones caused by government... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Subscriptions you can’t easily cancel, sales that aren’t sales – I’ll end the rip-offs that British people hate | Andy Burnham
These everyday hassles are small, but they add up – especially in a cost of living crisis. That’s why my government will tackle them head-on, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is excellent.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Post preview Holidays. They're relaxing, right? And they'd be more relaxing if you didn't take your phone with you... right? medium.com/@guyaswarbri...
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The Two-Factor Holiday
I left my phone at home for a two-week trip. Every ADHD coping system I’ve built in forty years turned out to live inside it.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I just published Keeping things on tracks medium.com/two-track-mi...
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Keeping things on tracks
Forty years of productivity systems, one butterfly mind, and one more tiny experiment.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com While the upcoming increases in the energy cap are of the same order of magnitude as the VAT cut, without it they would have had VAT on... so either way people will be better off than they would otherwise have been...
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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 13/06/2025
@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@andrewhunterm.bsky.social Just listened to No Such Thing as a Fish 587. No biplanes in WWII?! The Royal Navy ended the involvement of the Italian Navy in the Med with Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers in Nov. 1940. In May 1941, Swordfish sank the Bismarck. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_...
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Fairey Swordfish - Wikipedia
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just £9k to go... www.gofundme.com/f/buy-a-new-...
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Donate to Buy A New RNLI Hovercraft - The Flying Farage, organized by Simon Harris
I am trying to raise enough money to buy a new lifesaving hovercraft for th… Simon Harris needs your support for Buy A New RNLI Hovercraft - The Flying Farage
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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'Quite the opposite': GOP's 'Make America Healthy' promise torn apart in fact-check
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn't want Americans to think of him as an antivaccine conspiracy theorist as he seeks confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services — rather, he wants to be thought of as a guy who wants to…
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🔴Joining the EU Single Market Could Be the Gamechanger for Keir Starmer’s Government The UK economy and the new Labour Government needs an urgent shot in the arm. Could this be the solution? bylinetimes.com/2025/01/13/k...
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Joining the EU Single Market Could Be the Gamechanger for Keir Starmer's Government
Both the UK economy and the new Labour Government needs an urgent shot in the arm. Could this be the solution?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The Telegraph who hate illegal immigrants, advising Brits how to be illegal immigrants.
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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social ✍️ #cartoons #musk #trump #USA Elon Musk: Supervillain
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
So, Space Karen persuaded a court to rule that he was a founder of Tesla, despite not in any way being involved in the founding of Tesla because... cash. When will he tell Drumpf's Supreme Court to rule that he was one of America's Founding Fathers? He paid enough for the Presidency, after all...
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
From 2014, wonder whatever happened to this Farage guy who was criticised by families of survivors for politicising the grooming gangs?
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Nigel Farage accused of exploiting child abuse issue for political gain
Ukip accused of resorting to British National party-style tactics while campaigning to win Heywood and Middleton byelection
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
One of instagators of the far right riots has just been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison Thanks go to @hopenothate.org.uk 🙏🏼
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 06/01/2025
The Elon Musk saga has exposed Reform’s soft underbelly Nigel Farage's willing association with fringe and extreme actors makes it easier for opponents to admonish Reform as fringe and extreme My Latest for @politics-co-uk.bsky.social 👇 www.politics.co.uk/politicslunc...
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The Elon Musk saga has exposed Reform’s soft underbelly - Politics.co.uk
Just a few short weeks ago, tech billionaire Elon Musk and bullish populist Nigel Farage met in the United States to discuss, among other things, the prospect of a hefty donation. Reports at the time ...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Musk’s latest intervention is objectively hilarious but the problem of a hideous human using his enormous wealth & power to promote lies & liars in the U.K., despite having no links to or other interest in the country, remains acute.
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♘ 𝕴𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖍 千尺丨几Ꮆ乇 ☘️⚔️ @irish-pickle.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I've just shut up the East Wing, reduced Simmonds to a 5 day week, and sacked Rogers the chauffeur for much the same reason. Seems I'll have to drive the children back to school in the Bentley myself this Easter term.
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 05/01/2025
Biden’s legacy: The America that Cheesus will inherit from Biden is actually in better shape than that what’s been handed to any newly elected president since George W was given a SURPLUS and squandered it.
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Data proves Trump 'inheriting an economy that is about as good as it ever gets': report
Two weeks ahead of the official start of his second presidency, Donald Trump is slamming the United States as a "disaster" on social media. In a New York Times report published Sunday morning, White H...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
It’s like watching speed dating
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Praṇay Manocha @pranman.com · 04/01/2025
Reform MP who has been incessantly tweeting about muslim rape gangs these last few days was actually previously jailed for kicking his girlfriend. That's how much these guys care about women.
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Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking girlfriend, court records show
Reform UK previously said the MP rejected allegations he either "kicked, stamped or punched the victim" but accepted he "pushed" her and that she "fell and was injured".
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 04/01/2025
All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/l...
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All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You won't have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"Your Majesty, would you like to enjoy a refreshing beverage while you wait for the country you paid for?"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 05/01/2025
Finally, a headline that sums up (some, not all) of the costs of Brexit 5 in just 5 years #Brexit www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
'England's beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame'. Sewage dumping illegal in the EU, is normalized. More houses built without water infrastructure investment. Companies boost profits by abusing people and there is no effective regulator archive.ph/cXAAl
inews.co.uk
'Our beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame'
The EU previously acted as a watchdog on sewage pollution
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Dudley de Beau @dudleydebeau.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Musk is acting like a Russian proxy, doing his best to upset the world apple cart. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 03/01/2025
💯% - The Conservative govt’s relentless focus on small boat crossings and delays processing asylum claims played a role in stoking August’s UK riots, the chair of the Commons equalities committee has said “I can’t help but think that the backlog was deliberate“ It was a political choice they made”
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Tory focus on immigration helped stoke riots, equalities committee chair says
Exclusive: Sarah Owen warns Reform MPs are making task of strengthening UK communities more urgent
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/01/2025
I’m with Harry.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Lord Bamford owes £500,000,000 to HMRC he has retired from the House of Lords and fled. He expects his debt just like Michelle Mone's £232,000,000 debt to be written off. We must recover every penny from these thieves, and toss them in jail.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
And yet the U.K. Government still use his site.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 03/01/2025
Musk’s obsession with sparking a culture war in the UK has been evident for some time, but this particular tweet,the grossly inciteful language, crosses a line. It demands a response from every one of Phillips’s colleagues, & certainly the PM himself. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/a-loudmouth-...
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The dangerous lies of Elon Musk
His ill-informed backing for Tommy Robinson and slurs against Jess Phillips say it all about Trump's right-hand man
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
MPs and peers could be forced to submit to criminal record checks under proposals submitted by a new Labour MP Many local authorities already run DBS checks on elected officials but it's not standard practice in parliament news.sky.com/story/parlia...
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Parliament urged to begin mandatory DBS criminal record checks on new MPs and peers
Many local authorities already run DBS checks on elected officials but it's not standard practice in parliament.
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Guy Swarbrick #FBPE #RejoinEU #European @gswarbrick.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
More Seestar S50 images processed with PixInsight. This is an incredible bit of kit for the money.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
UK's regressive tax system. Poorest 10% of households paid 48% of income in tax; richest 10% paid 39%. Poorest 10% paying 12% of income in VAT; richest 10% pay 3%. Council tax: Poorest 10% paying 7%; richest 10% pay 1.2%. No govt plans to end inequity. equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...
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UK Still Taxes the Poorest More Than the Richest - Equality Trust
New data from the Office for National Statistics shows that the poorest 10% of households in the UK are still paying a higher proportion of their income in tax than the richest.
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